The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

She’s special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own swords. (Deimos)

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.